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16 Mar 15
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You know when you're in a longish queue and they open another checkout and the person at the back of the queue goes straight to the newly opened till.
Annoys me slightly but I put it down to lack of thought rather than bad manners. Also, staff need to be trained as they often usher the person at the back to the new checkout.
Rant over.
Annoys me slightly but I put it down to lack of thought rather than bad manners. Also, staff need to be trained as they often usher the person at the back to the new checkout.
Rant over.
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I agree with Nick
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I agree with Crisp77 agreeing with Nick.
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Wouldn't the person at the back of the queue have waited longest if the new till wasn't opened? So in as they were prepared to wait longer then they think that person should be front of the queue on a new checkout
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It's survival of the fittest ... where first is fed and second goes hungry, where wild horses roam untamed, and white men fear to tread - it really is a jungle out there.
I always shop at Waitrose as their customers are more genteel - wouldn't dare do it in Aldi at Reddith. Might cost a bit more at Waitrose, but I've still got all my ears. |
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I love M&S's new Jump to Front of Queue Ticket (£5)
...just to see the faces of back-trackees  |
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I hate it when this happens. It usually means I have to sling my shopping onto the conveyor belt.
I like time to load it in an orderly fashion. I sometimes decline to move. I would rather wait than be hurried. |
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I bet good money the op googled the word eteket
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From my experience in supermarkets there is just one group of people that do not understand the basic rules of manners and etiquette. They are called Women.
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Particularly the fat pig ones. Particularly the ones with children. They live on another planet. Always leave their trolley perpendicular to the aisle then get their fat @rse to block out the one small gaps to the side of the trolley then look at you like you've just sh1t on their kids when you have the temerity to say "excuse me please".
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Sometimes you are going down an aisle with a trolley and like a normal, polite human being you have a look up ahead, plan your route and that. Sometimes you see a bloke up ahead coming toward you doing the same thing and with a little nod of the head one or other of you manages to sort out a right of way without any words having to be exchanged. This is England. This is manners. This is what we fought two world wars for. Then some fat benefits coont who should have been sterilised after the second kid just jumps in the gap, parks her trolley and starts filling it up with cheese straws or 24 packs of chocolate mousse or 50% fat beef mince or whatever godforsaken muck these people eat.
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Rob - the nicotine withdrawal symptoms haven't alleviated yet?
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It's a ruddy battlezone out there and no mistake and with more etiquette-fail options than in the court of The Sun King.
First off as our friend here has said, there's trolley parking issue Next there's the amount of time you should reasonably be allowed to spend blocking other shoppers views of the goods whilst you rummage around for what you're seeking. The checkout itself is a sub-genre all of it's own. How long is it acceptable to f@rt about cashing innumerable vouchers, searching for your clubcard, searching for your debit card, chatting with the checkout droog whilst your goods remain resolutely unpacked? In my world? FIVE SECONDS before you get impaled on a grissini stick! Then there's the little game you play with checkout droog who attempts to fire down articles quicker than you are able to pack them and so gain a moment of smug triumph to relieve the meaninglessness of their otherwise tedious existence. Thankfully, with the advent of Aldi and their 'get 'em in, flog it cheap, get 'em out' approach to the customer experience much of the above is now rendered meaningless and for the smart, svelte, 'in control' shooing bloke, you're frankly sleeping on the job if you're not out of there , weeks shopping in your boot, inside 20 minutes. |
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Another thing that annoys me are the mothers (and it is always women ime) that put their kids in the trolley itself
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Top stuff roger. I've got my packing absolutely nailed. Never have to use any of their plastic bags, no way checkout girl can scan it quicker than I can pack it. scan your own clubcard and do the old debit card jobby as quick as paying by cash job's a goodun.
10 weeks now nick and barely ever think about smoking. I am a non-smoker. Although women in supermarkets do test my resillience. |
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Congratulations, Rob.
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Tesco "Click & Collect" is the way forward, imo.
It's free, Mrs mememe sets up collection time a few days ahead and then, quite nonchalantly, it seems, adds stuff to her on-line basket during the next few days. And when the appointed time arrives, (occasionally when the racing is crap) I drive with her to Tesco and sit smugly in my car as the click & collect wallah loads the stuff in the car (all the stuff has already been picked and packed by some octogenarian drone in the middle of the night). I never need to go in the shop, it's a free service, and I never see those unpleasant fat women in leggings with their unhealthy children. |
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Anyone noticed how old ladies slyly govern the flow of customers thru the aisles? Imo its a worldwide conspiracy that old dears go out in pairs and stand motionless obstructing all of the worst bottlenecks.To guarantee its impossible to squeeze by them they craftily link arms.I wish i knew what they are up to.
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havn`t been in a supermarket in years, men should be banned from the places.
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hector
The old dears also used to stand at the bottom of the up escalator in the local John Lewis store and looked lost/hold conversations, thereby making it very difficult for non-confused people to step on to the escalator. John L management then put a minder on duty to keep them away. So they moved to the John L lifts and press every floor button, thereby causing the lift to stop at every floor, but stay on because the lift is going up and they want to go down. And when you come to exit the car park (pre-pay at machine before going to car), they've forgotten to pre-pay, thereby causing almighty confusion. And they're living longer. It can only mean one thing ... but not sure what |
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yes these old dears are so silly that they have managed to arrange their world where they can come and go as they please and not charge around like a lunatic pretending they have important things to do...remarkable how they manage
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Jesus Christ how long does it take to pay for your shopping at the checkout??
agree with above posts about women, when all items have been scanned the checkout person says that will be £amount please, and OMG they look around with a look on their face of "OMG I have to pay???!!" and then it starts the rummaging around for the debit card in the bottomless handbag, first they forget where the handbag is so that takes at least 2 minutes to locate, once handbag is located, then then purse has to be located, this can take at least another 3 minutes, purse located, good, open purse and OMG! a wadful o vouchers fall out, half of these vouchers wont be valid as they have expired but each one will be scanned to check, this will take at least another 3-4 mins, all vouchers scanned, good, next located debit card in purse, this can take another minute as there will be several, next located the correct debit card, good, now insert card in machine, cashier presses button on till, and askes to enter pin, now have a blank look on face of whats my pin number now? key it like your 100% sure you are keying in the wrong number so slowly, pin number in good, now it will take a age to take card out, put it back in purse, put purse back in handbag print of receipt, done? good, now must have a little smiley chit chat with cahier this can take at least another 2 mins What really should have taken 2 mins has taken at least 10 mins |
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Etiquette schmettiquette... it's survival in todays supermarket(why do you think it's called shopping wars ffs.
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Actual LOL (well, audible s****) @ RD, marvellous stuff.
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Jeepers, s**** rhymes with bigger.
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Special One how come we know where their handbags are when they dont? Its ALWAYS at the bottom of the shopping trolley,under the weeks shopping.
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Does anyone regularly use those scanning guns that you can pick up at the Supermarket entrance?
Scan your items as you put them in the trolley. Simple pay at the end of your shop |
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My missus has done a few times.
The last time, a couple of weeks back, she was selected for a random check which she said was a bit of a faff |
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How do they know if you didn't scan an item(s) ??
It is open to abuse but they carry out random checks from time to time |
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So 9 times out of 10 you can walk out with a trolley full of shopping ?
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I have the solution to this problem, shop before 9.00 am, easy as chips.
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Supermarkets are also home to "bores" as in pub bores but more harmless.They trap strangers in endless pointless conversations.
A true story.I had a high street shop within the territory of a bore known a Phillipino Man.He was English with a Phillipino wife and was clearly starved of attention.He spent all day patrolling his patch hoping to trap unsuspecting shoppers and every conversation he had was always about the Phillipines.His favourite ice breaker was the weather .Typically a harmless "its hot/cold/wet/windy today isnt it?".When the victim responded he would say " but not as hot/cold/wet/windy as the Phillipines" and then he would be into his stride for 40 minutes to an hour, he used to ramble on relentlessly.One evening after locking the shop the high street was empty apart from Phillipino man and me.Just as im bracing myself for an ear bashing Phillipino man walks straight past me totally blanking me.Didnt know whether to laugh or cry. |
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We tried it once - a bit confusing and practice needed.
You have to scan a Clubcard to unlock the device, so they know who you are. Throughout there was the 'worry' did we scan that item or did we just throw it in the trolley. At the end a scanner op picked 6 random items out of the basket to check we had scanned them. The other problem was we didn't pack as we went round. You just scanned your card at the end. No queues and straight out. With practice it would probably be a more sane way to shop. |
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Thin and Crispy
I have the solution to this problem, shop before 9.00 am, easy as chips I have an easier solution, leave the shopping to the professionals ie the women. My wife does all our shopping although I have occasionally stood in when she hasn't been well. Got to say I hate it and never knew women could be so ignorant. |
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you gotta fit, mobile, mean, and very alert, especially at Aldi checkouts
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